When Ed Miliband didn’t come to the House of Commons to deliver a statement it became obvious the wheels had come off his ‘plan’ to deliver zero carbon electricity by 2030, says Shadow Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho in the Telegraph. Here’s an excerpt.
This is a man who loves to preach about his Clean Power project, and yet on Tuesday when the National Energy System Operator (NESO) finally published its analysis of his plans to decarbonise the entire electricity grid in just five years, he was nowhere to be seen.
If you read its report, you can understand why.
It makes for very difficult reading for an ideologue who spent the General Election claiming he would cut household bills by £300 by delivering “100% clean power by 2030”. Instead, it makes clear that even with a “Herculean effort” – the words of the Chief Executive of the Neso – the best-case scenario is that costs remain the same.
Even this broken election promise – it’s certainly not £300 off bills – is only achievable in a fantasy world where several impossible things magically happen at once.
First, Mr. Miliband would have to rewrite the planning system, overcome global supply constraints and community dissent to build twice as many pylons and cables in the next five years as we have built in the last 10.
As even his own “head of mission control”, Chris Stark, acknowledges, “all planned transmission network projects must be built on time”. If Ed doesn’t deliver then consumers will be on the hook for billions of pounds in constraint payments, where we pay wind farms to simply switch off and sit idle.
Despite building more offshore wind than any other country bar China, we would need to contract as much offshore wind capacity in the next one to two years as in the last six combined.
As we have seen in the most recent auction round, which Mr. Miliband bumped up, this approach is already driving up bills. Just last week the Institute for Fiscal Studies said that green levies, which people pay on top of their electricity bills, would rise by an extra £120 per household.
In a world where we are contracting vastly more wind power at breakneck speed, this will only go up.
That’s just the start. For instance, during the current (Europe-wide) lull in wind, Britain’s 30 GW of installed wind capacity at times has been producing less than 1 GW of electricity.
Read the rest here.
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This evil must be stopped.
The Government will not stop this. Parents have to fight back. Home school individually or in groups. Or, perhaps form groups and demonstrate outside the school and name and shame the heads of those schools for the perversion of their children. Make the head teachers lives hell upon which they will approach their unions for help. The unions will then either do nothing with the result of head teachers resigning, sick leave etc causing headaches for the educational authorities to remedy the situation or the unions may put pressure on the goverment to reconsider ‘identity’ lessons. Take a leaf out of the Left activism book and turn it against the progressives.
And whilst doing this join centre right challenger parties whose manifesto state they will halt this state perversion of children.
I agree wholeheartedly; as with the schools allowing children under the age of majority to take part in protests where illegal acts are committed, even if High Plod Rowley disagrees, this is a Child Safety issue. Adults who sanction this, who have had to undergo a high level Disclosure and Barring Service vetting in order to go to work should be reported by their Heads ( unless they agree ). The Chair of Governors of these schools are equally responsible for these minors being exploited in this horrendous manner.
But that is in a world in which we do not inhabit; home schooling is the obvious answer but only if a parent can undertake this responsibility …. and for those families who cannot, what a Catch 22 this is.
Where is the safeguarding for these children? Are these private providers checked? Are they allowed access to the children alone? Are they given access to the children’s private data and contact details.
Saviles, Epsteins, Blairs etc. of the world rejoice! Worth watching the whole No Outsiders promo video of which the Teddy is an extract.
https://youtu.be/CIH7I_SEU0E
Shush we can’t say paedophiles have infiltrated primary schools because that would offend the paedophiles.
Ah yes, bless their little cotton socks. They’re so persecuted. They must be free to explore their perversions.
(To be clear, this is sarcasm, just in case it wasn’t obvious)
“Minor attracted persons”, please!
No Outsiders boss Andrew Moffat wrote: “This teaching must begin in primary schools. We are all intersectional; one identity does not suffice to make up who we are.”
IMHO, the appropriate place for this person is a mental asylum the moments he starts to make a nuisance of himself and certainly not an elementary school where he can freely preach to really young children lacking the mental capacity and experience necessary for assessing the value of his statements. Children which aren’t yet sexually mature obviously don’t have an idea what being a man or a woman actually means. And this deranged would-be pied piper shouldn’t have an opportunity to exploit this.
Words fail me, can’t kids just be kids?
They’ll work out the rest in due corse!
I did.
Target the school governors of the schools that allow this.
If you don’t want your children indoctrinated with this nonsense, home-school them.
Horrendous teacher!!! I see this as child abuse. I would home school if this happened.
Run away to a place they won’t find! is never the solution. Should these people find themselves dispossessed of a sizeable number of vulnerable pupils to exploit, they’ll find a way to make this illegal to Save the children!